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UN looks for recipe to tackle global food dysfunction

UN looks for recipe to tackle global food dysfunction

-- 2021-09-24 08:52:14

Billions of people are overweight, millions are hungry, one third of food is wasted and the way the world produces, processes and consumes food generates one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, UN chie...

'Death sentence': Low-lying nations urge faster action on climate

'Death sentence': Low-lying nations urge faster action on climate

-- 2021-09-24 08:34:55

Faced with what they see as an existential threat, leaders from low-lying and island nations implored rich countries at the United Nations General Assembly this week to act more forcefully against a w...

China opposes Taiwan region joining official agreement or organisation

China opposes Taiwan region joining official agreement or organisation

-- 2021-09-23 22:11:28

China firmly opposes official interactions between any country and the Taiwan region, and firmly rejects Taiwan's accession to any agreement or organisation of official nature, a foreign ministry spok...

Nobel prize banquet postponed again in 2021 due to pandemic

Nobel prize banquet postponed again in 2021 due to pandemic

-- 2021-09-23 20:44:19

There will be no banquet in Stockholm this year and laureates will receive their Nobel Prize medals and diplomas in their home countries, the Nobel Foundation said on Thursday. The traditional festiv...

US envoy resigns over expulsions to Haiti from Texas camp

US envoy resigns over expulsions to Haiti from Texas camp

-- 2021-09-23 19:58:57

The US envoy to Haiti dramatically resigned on Thursday in a letter that excoriated Washington for deporting hundreds of migrants to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a border camp in recent d...

Russia's COVID-19 deaths return to record daily highs

Russia's COVID-19 deaths return to record daily highs

-- 2021-09-23 19:45:02

Russia on Thursday reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time high set on Aug. 26, and authorities warned that cases were again rising rapidly. Moscow recorded...

Afghanistan wants friendly relations with international community, said acting FM

Afghanistan wants friendly relations with international community, said acting FM

-- 2021-09-23 18:54:50

The acting foreign minister of the newly-formed administration of Afghanistan said Thursday that the country wants to have friendly relations with the international community, including the neighbouri...

Algeria closes airspace to Moroccan planes as dispute deepens

Algeria closes airspace to Moroccan planes as dispute deepens

-- 2021-09-23 18:45:41

Algeria announced the closure of its airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft on Wednesday, less than a month after it cut diplomatic relations with the Kingdom. The supreme security coun...

Lithuania urges its citizens to throw away Chinese phones

Lithuania urges its citizens to throw away Chinese phones

-- 2021-09-23 18:23:21

Lithuania’s government has urged consumers to avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in...

Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest: UN expert

Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest: UN expert

-- 2021-09-23 17:30:12

Myanmar’s military junta is systematically abducting the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including children as young as 20 weeks old, according the UN special rapporteur for the cou...

Australia says it will be patient on rebuilding ties with France

Australia says it will be patient on rebuilding ties with France

-- 2021-09-23 11:07:40

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he has tried to arrange a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron but has been unsuccessful so far, a week after his cancellation of a major su...

US authorises Pfizer Covid-19 booster for older, at-risk Americans

US authorises Pfizer Covid-19 booster for older, at-risk Americans

-- 2021-09-23 10:17:59

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorised a booster dose of the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for those 65 and older, all people at high risk of severe disease, and others...

Under pressure, US donates another half billion Covid vaccine doses to world

Under pressure, US donates another half billion Covid vaccine doses to world

-- 2021-09-23 10:13:44

The United States on Wednesday promised to buy 500 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world...

US to donate an additional 500m COVID-19 vaccine doses

US to donate an additional 500m COVID-19 vaccine doses

-- 2021-09-22 19:54:51

The United States plans to donate an additional 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE to nations around the world, lifting the total the country is sharing to more than...

Myanmar town near India border sees exodus

Myanmar town near India border sees exodus

-- 2021-09-22 15:24:30

Most of the population of a Myanmar town near the Indian border have fled after buildings were set ablaze by artillery amid fighting between militia forces opposed to military...

Furious scenes at Haiti’s main airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions

Furious scenes at Haiti’s main airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions

-- 2021-09-22 13:00:28

Angry scenes broke out at Haiti's main airport on Tuesday among migrants sent home from a squalid Texas border camp, as US President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure to stop an expulsions policy the...

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Melbourne, tremors jolt southeast Australia

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Melbourne, tremors jolt southeast Australia

-- 2021-09-22 09:03:13

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country's second-largest cit...

Taliban names Afghan UN ambassador, asks to speak to world leaders

Taliban names Afghan UN ambassador, asks to speak to world leaders

-- 2021-09-22 08:57:35

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a let...

Biden wants to double climate change aid for developing nations

Biden wants to double climate change aid for developing nations

-- 2021-09-21 23:29:40

US President Joe Biden told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday he would work with Congress to double funds by 2024 to $11.4 billion per year to help developing nations deal with climate ch...

Russia was behind Litvinenko assassination, finds European court

Russia was behind Litvinenko assassination, finds European court

-- 2021-09-21 18:25:45

The European Court of Human Rights found on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonising death in 2006 after being poisoned i...

Sudanese authorities contain coup attempt, bring situation under control

Sudanese authorities contain coup attempt, bring situation under control

-- 2021-09-21 18:01:38

Sudanese authorities have contained a failed coup attempt and the situation has been brought under control, a member of the country's ruling council told Reuters on Tuesday. Interrogation of suspects...

Trudeau wins another minority in election

Trudeau wins another minority in election

-- 2021-09-21 12:24:15

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hung onto power on Monday as his main rival conceded defeat, saying he had won a clear mandate to govern although he fell short of his goal for a majority win....

France seeks clarifications, explanations from US after submarine deal

France seeks clarifications, explanations from US after submarine deal

-- 2021-09-21 12:14:44

France's foreign minister said on Monday that the United States would need to give France explanations and clarifications when United States President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Mac...

US rolls back travel restrictions, to allow fully-vaccinated travellers

US rolls back travel restrictions, to allow fully-vaccinated travellers

-- 2021-09-20 21:55:43

The United States will reopen to air passengers from China, India, Britain and many other European countries who have received COVID-19 vaccines in early November, the White House said Monday, rolling...

India to resume vaccine exports to COVAX, neighbours next quarter

India to resume vaccine exports to COVAX, neighbours next quarter

-- 2021-09-20 18:47:21

India will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines in the October to December quarter, prioritising the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX and neighbouring countries first as supplies rise, the health...

Ex-British PM Brown appointed WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing

Ex-British PM Brown appointed WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing

-- 2021-09-20 17:42:04

Gordon Brown, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, has been appointed World Health Organization (WHO) Ambassador for Global Health Financing. Brown is widely credited with preventing a second...

Egypt urges Israel to revive peace talks with Palestinians

Egypt urges Israel to revive peace talks with Palestinians

-- 2021-09-20 16:18:44

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held on Sunday a phone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid, and urged Israel to revive peace talks with the Palestinian side to end their decad...

Five killed in a shooting at Russian university

Five killed in a shooting at Russian university

-- 2021-09-20 14:16:59

A student gunman opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, killing five people and injuring six others, Reuters reported citing the law enforcement authorities. The gunman wa...

France cancels defence meeting with UK over submarine row

France cancels defence meeting with UK over submarine row

-- 2021-09-20 11:34:35

France has cancelled a meeting between Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly and her British counterpart planned for this week after Australia scrapped a submarine order with Paris in favour of a deal...

EU-style bloc pitched for Latin America, Caribbean

EU-style bloc pitched for Latin America, Caribbean

-- 2021-09-20 09:05:14

Latin American and Caribbean nations should aspire to a bloc like the European Union, Mexico's president and other leaders said at a summit on Saturday, in a bid to wrest influence away from the Washi...